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Kajima Corp. is engaged in the construction and real estate development businesses. It operates through the following segments: Civil Engineering, Building Construction, Real Estate and Other, Domestic Subsidiaries and Affiliates, and Overseas Subsidiaries and Affiliates. The Real Estate and Other segment includes architectural, structural, engineering, and other design businesses. The Domestic Subsidiaries and Affiliates segment deals with local construction material sales, contract specialized construction works, comprehensive leasing, and building rental activities done. The Overseas Subsidiaries and Affiliates segment handles overseas construction and development projects. The company was founded by Iwakichi Kajima in 1840 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. [...] more

Trian asked that DuPont use a universal proxy card at its 2014 annual shareholder meeting this spring, potentially allowing for rank and file shareholders to vote for its board nominees even if they wanted to support many of the company’s board nominees. read »

Kelle Barfield is Entergy Corporation vice president of integrated communications. In addition to overseeing communication in support of the company’s sustainability initiatives, her team is responsible for corporate branding, advertising, digital media, internal communications and corporate event planning. Barfield began her Entergy career at read »

Marketing is as old as beer – or at least as old as the Stella Artois brand, which goes back to 1366. Beer aside, there is nothing frothy about the marketing of brands, products and services in today’s business world, especially in the digital marketing world where it’s now possible to market your business simply with read »

Lisa Mann joined Kind Healthy Snacks in January, assuming the role of executive VP of marketing. She joined from Mondelez International, where she most recently had been senior VP of the global gum category. Prior to that, she was VP of cookies—and the marketer behind the now-famous ‘Oreo Tweet.’

He called it “a pretty good year,” but Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders could barely contain his glee at announcing the company’s 2014 record annual results last week in Munich, where the German headquarters of the pan-European company is located (the group HQ are in Toulouse, France). In line with his leadership philosophy, he is struggling to be read »

The countdown has started to the Paris climate conference at the end of the year and this time, there will be a binding deal between the parties to cut emissions, according to Mark Kenber, chief executive at The Climate Group.

“Unlike previous meetings, Paris is not the end of the process, it’s more of a signal on where the world is on read »

Alibaba, China’s biggest online commerce company and the world’s fastest growing e-commerce marketplace, officially launched their Trade Assurance Program during ASD Market Week, the largest, most comprehensive trade show of its kind that welcomes over 45K attendees bi-annually. Currently taking place in Las read »

At its core purpose, marketing is supposed to raise awareness to increase business. Too often however, I observe Chief “Marketing” Officers engaged in campaigns and activities designed merely to do the former without true execution on the latter. This needs to end. read »

Professional social networks such as LinkedIn are as important to our economy as banks and capital markets. Those network reduces risks in our economy by offering transparency into the job market. read »

Ordinarily I write about bringing out the talent in other people, but for many years I focused on customer experience and marketing. It bothers me that companies don’t do more to bring out the best not only in their customers, but also in their employees.

Much of this failing comes from a short-sighted, outdated view of what marketing read »